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Its time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek The original series which started in 1966. The next TV show was The Next Generation which debuted in 1987. This show had the best cast, future innovation and aliens. It had the highest ratings over all Star Trek TV shows. In the next year we will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek The Next Generation (TNG). Enjoy the cast of the Next Generation at the Star Trek Convention 2016 in the recording below.

A new RDesktop Client update for OS/2 was just recently released, among some fixes and improvements it now includes a new WPS class that will be a gui like front end for the command line. Like this it is a seamless way to connect to a remote host including a login window. First you need to add the path of rdesktop.exe to the path and libpath in config.sys. You also need to add the host name (-n) to the config options on the protocol tab in the rdesktop properties notebook or the login window will silently quit without an error message.

It has been a while since version 3.1.4 which was released in 2011. NetDrive for OS/2 is now back with the new version 3.1.5, it contains some fixes and extensions for the updated SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) plugin. NetDrive is shareware, this is also true for the new SFTP-Plugin V3.1.5. The Update is free for already registered 3.x program versions.

The long awaited Firefox ESR 38 release (38.2.1) is now available after the previous alpha builds in 2015. It took some more time to work on the new fontconfig support and the pango/cairo display engine. The font support and rendering has changed compared to previous versions and thus it requires additional config files and runtime dlls. A newer Cairo version is required for pango, this was ported and is working but printing is currently broken because of this change.
The update to ESR 38.6.1 is already on the way, Mozilla’s next planed update will be ESR 38.7.0.

Firefox 38.2.1 ESR beta for OS/2

Changes in this release:

Switch to original fontconfig for much better font substitution.

Switch from GPI to Pango for better text layout and rendering. This obsoletes ‘gfx.os2.font.*’ properties and also brings long-awaited support for @font-face (loadable Web fonts).

Temporarily disable native print driver support which is currently broken.